Originally posted by: DesertViper
I would suspect that stock top speed is about 85 mph, but it gets there in a hurry. Back in 1987 I raced a desert race that went across the Bonneville Salt Flats. On the flyer they mailed out before the race they told us we would want "WFO Gearing", and that they would have a radar gun clocking top speed somewhere in the race. I went two teeth bigger on the front sprocket, and six teeth smaller on the rear sprocket on my '87 CR500 for that race. Gearing ended up being too high for most of the race, and for several salt flat areas I couldn't even pull fifth gear, because the salt was a bit wet. One salt flat was bone dry though, and I finally got to use fifth gear. After five miles of running wide open they had a radar gun, that was connected to an LED sign that was run by one of those little Honda generators. My top speed was 105 mph, tucked in against the gas tank, holding on to the handlebar with only one hand (the throttle hand). The other hand was tucked in, for less wind resistance. My speed was the fastest speed recorded for anyone racing the amature class, and the fastest speed at that race was the expert class racer that won the overall, on a KTM 520cc 2-stroke, at 107 mph.

[edit] I read the other thread on this forum right now that talks about a stock DRZ400 going 111 mph. I'm not sure I believe that, even if it is posted over on thumpertalk.com. Maybe that speed is possible on pavement, but on dirt, ... lets just say I'm sceptical.

Originally posted by: fasterthanyou22
I am just saying, with all the terrorist **** goin on now, god knows what is going to happen to the inhabitants of this country in 10 years.

Originally posted by: Raptor660Rshee350
I wonder why Yamaha kills the Shee and keeps the blaster.

Originally posted by: quicksilver
maybe this is way off the wall, but maybe yamaha is doing like Chevy was doin for a couple years, they pull their high-end sports car off the market and say "it's done for good" just to focus their market on their mainstream cars, then when they get money ahead they bring it back again and say "it's the return of a legend" or whatever. I think they did that with the camaro or whatever. Maybe yamaha is going to do the same thing? they want to focus on the 4-stroke racing to get ahead of honda's 450r (which i'm sure it could) and as soon as they do, the bring back the banshee when they get bored and we all can go out and buy banshees again.

Originally posted by: Storj
what law is going in affect, and they havent stoped making two stroke dirtbikes and what about the blaster the trailblazzer they're twostrokes